LABOR: April Thaw

The soft-coal dispute, frozen by John Lewis'
gruesome "memorial" strike, melted this week like an April thaw. Lewis'
miners, losing millions of dollars in wages and gaining not a thing,
had been drifting back. Secretary of the Interior Julius ("Cap") Krug
had thrown responsibility for mine safety right back at Lewis himself.
Then Lewis' old nemesis, Justice T. Alan Goldsborough, melted the last
block of ice.

The judge ruminatively decided that Lewis' union might still have to pay
the whole $3,500,000 contempt fine, which Goldsborough had slapped on
last December, if Lewis did not behave himself and show that he...